Light The Festive Candles

Light the first of eight tonight—

the farthest candle to the right.

Light the first and second, too,

when tomorrow’s day is through.

Then light three, and then light four—

every dusk one candle more

Till all eight burn bright and high,

honoring a day gone by

When the Temple was restored,

rescued from the Syrian lord,

And an eight-day feast proclaimed—

The Festival of Lights—well named

To celebrate the joyous day

when we regained the right to pray

to our one God in our own way.

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Poems in English 

• The Song Of Wandering Aengus by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Song Of The Old Mother by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Shadowy Waters: The Harp of Aengus by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Seven Sages by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Secret Rose by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Scholars by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Saint And The Hunchback by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Sad Shepherd by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Rose Tree by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Rose Of The World by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Rose Of Peace by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Rose Of Battle by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Results Of Thought by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Realists by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Poet Pleads With The Elemental Powers by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Pity Of Love by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Pilgrim by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Phases Of The Moon by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The People by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats

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Doska or the Board – write anything

Search engines:

Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)

Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.

Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees

Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.

Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.

 

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